The Lives of John Wicliff, and of the Most Eminent of His Disciples; Lord Cobham, John Huss, Jerome of Prague, and Zisca ...John Mein, corner of Burling-slip and Water-street, 1814 - 288 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 87 - Wickliff are men of a serious, modest deportment ; avoiding all ostentation in dress, mixing little with the busy world, and complaining of the debauchery of mankind. They maintain themselves wholly by their own labour, and utterly despise wealth ; being fully content with bare necessaries. They follow no traffic, because it is attended with so much lying, swearing, and cheating.
الصفحة 30 - English, and by that means laid it more open to the laity and to women who could read, than it used to be to the most learned of the clergy, and those of them who had the best understanding : and so the Gospel pearl is cast abroad, and trodden under foot of swine...
الصفحة 204 - Observing the executioner about to set fire to the wood behind his back, he cried out, ' Bring thy torch hither. Perform thy office before my face. Had I feared death, I might have avoided it.
الصفحة 71 - ... as God's law and man's law techen. And now whoever can run to Rome, and bear gold out of the lond, and strive and plead, and curse for tithes, and other temporal profits, that ben cleped with antichrist's clerks rights of holy church, shall have great benefices of cure of many thousand souls, tho he be unable, and of cursed life, and wicked ensample of pride, of covetisse, glotony, leachery, and other great sins. But if there be any simple man, that desireth to live well, and teche truly God's...
الصفحة 199 - ... pronounced a heretic : I am condemned, " before I am examined. Were you gods omniscient, « instead of an assembly of fallible men, you could not " act with more sufficiency. — Error is the lot of mortals ; " and you, exalted as you are, are subject to it. But " consider, that the higher you are exalted, of the more " dangerous consequence are your errors. — As for me, «' I know I am a wretch below your notice : But at least " consider, that an unjust action, in such an assembly, " will...
الصفحة 170 - For when the breath of man goeth forth, he shall turn again to his earth, and then all his thoughts perish.
الصفحة 170 - For myself, on bis gracious promise I rest. Having endeavoured to be his faithful servant, I fear not being deserted by him. Where I am, says the gracious promiser, there shall my servant be. May the God of heaven preserve you ! This is probably the last letter I shall be enabled to write. I have reason to believe I shall be called upon to.
الصفحة 198 - I enquire not into the merits of it; resting satisfied with the decision of my superiors. But I will just give you a summary of his trial. After many articles had been proved against him, leave was at length given him to answer each in its order.
الصفحة 184 - After this he set out on his return to Bohemia. He had the precaution to take with him a certificate, signed by several of the Bohemian nobility, then at Constance, testifying that he had used all prudent means in his power to procure a hearing.
الصفحة 181 - Cologn, and Oxford. At the latter place he became acquainted with the works of Wickliffe, and being a person of uncommon application, he translated many of them into his native language, having with great pains, made himself master of the English tongue.